Graduate Studies
Prospective Students Information
Graduate Fields of Study
The UIUC History Department offers thirty graduate fields of concentration, with varying geographic, chronological, and thematic emphases. For information on these fields you should consult the links below. It is also possible for students to design independent constructed fields.
- Africa
- Afro-American
- American Intellectual & Culture
- Britain & Empire-Commonwealth since 1688
- China
- Colonial North America & Early US to 1830
- Colonialism and Post-Colonialism
- Comparative Labor/Working Class
- Cultural and Intellectual
- Eastern and Southeastern Europe
- Europe, 1648-1789
- Europe since 1789
- Global Histories
- History of Science, Technology and Medicine
- History of Nationalism
- History of Women and Gender
- Japan
- Late Antiquity
- Latin America
- Middle Ages
- Middle East
- Race and Ethnicity
- Religion in Pre-Modern Society
- Renaissance & Reformation
- Russia
- United States since 1830